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WRITTEN BY FANNIE E. CHENOWETH 

ILLUSTRATED BY ANNIE RYCKMAN 

PRINTED BY E, C. O'NEIL 

KALISPELL 

MONTANA 

1914 

©CI.A380089 

Copyrighted August, 1914 




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"^^pOU czme to this country long years 

Up rivers which flow to the Mexico, 
To this western land now the nations* 
pride, 
Where the Mountains are high—and the 
Valleys wide. 






OU felled the trees and turned the 

sod, 
Builded homes for yourselves and to 
your God. 
These beautiful churches and school 

houses fair 
In valleys— on hillsides and everywhere. 



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HERE the war-whoop rang 

is the whistle of trains 
Over Mountains and Rivers 
and fertile Plains. 
Now grains and fruits and 
produces rare 
Blossom and flourish in 
Montana air. 



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ME white-faced cattle, 

some year ago, 
Took the place on the prairies 

of the buffalo. 
The Automobile and the Palace-car 
Are bringing new settlers, 

from near and far. 













HE Pioneer clays 
are the days of old 

When you dug your wealth 
from the Mountains bold. 

Now the farms with their products 
lay vast stores 

Of treasures like gold 
at your very doors, 




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!HE days of old and the days 
of gold 
Are passing away like a tale 
that's told. 
But their memory clings and lin- 
gers till 
It brighter grows on the western 
hill. 




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the trail of life 

you have traveled far. 

You have made a State 
and now ajar 

See the gates to the city 
of love and light, 

The City Beautiful, 
where there is no night. 




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N the other side of this great divide ~~ _._z 
Jj^gjlp Are the loved ones who journeyed by your 

side 

They joyously await as in days of yore 
To welcome you home when the journey's o'er. 



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